Unwise passions

"In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her newborn infant. Once one of the loveliest and most sought-after young women in Virginia society, she was immediately denounced as a ruined Jezebel, and the great orator Patrick Henry and future Supreme Court Justice John Marshall were retained to defend her in her sensational trial.". "It is the true story of the privileged and pampered children of the new country's aristocratic families as…